Server outage 05/13/2018

From what my server guys told me, my server was under attack by hackers this morning, and it basically took down everything. Looks like they were able to mitigate the situation, however, and brought the server back online.

Sorry about that, but these things happen sometimes. Just all part of the fun in doing this sort of stuff.

Glad we are back.

Thank you for taking the time to straighten it all out. I wish there was a spray you could use (Hakaway?) to get rid of those stupid hacking varmints.

I think the brand is Hack-Off? LOL

Usually this sort of thing gets me pretty uptight, but strangely enough, I didn't even have to reach for the Excedrin bottle even once. I just went outside and did some chores, figuring no sense worrying about something I can't do a darn thing about anyway.

I honestly thought the server guys were going to tell me it was a DDOS attack and they were going to just null route my server until the attack ended. And honestly, I wasn't even worried about that. Eh, I could use a break from this stuff. I haven't taken a break from the doing some kind of daily maintenance on my sites for a long, long time. So if something like this forces my sites off the net, well heck, so be it. REAL VACATION TIME!

Even DDOS attacks don't last forever, so sooner of later the sites would be back. Probably would be one heck of a lot stressful than just doing a server move!

Darn, I MUST be getting much more mellow in my old age......